Hidden inside underage sit dungaree, unagreed, and underage, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dungaree, unagreed, and underage tie for the highest Scrabble score from underage at 10 points. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in underage: two come from rearranging its letters, and underage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dungaree, unagreed, and underage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in underage produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agender, angered, derange and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling underage turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, argued and danger. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including agreed, argued and danger.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger and argue. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including grade, grand and guard.
Rearranging the letters in underage produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare and dear. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including aged, drag and drug.
Unscrambling underage turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, and and are. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dug, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, ag and da.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in underage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in underage and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
underage is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for underage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
underage is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dungaree, unagreed, and underage, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underage earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in underage produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.